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Women spinning. From BL Harley 4375 folio 179, ca. 1475, public domain. Adapted from the British Library.
Amt, Emilie. Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge, 2010.
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Harris, Barbara J. English Aristocratic Women and the Fabric of Piety, 1450-1550. Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Howell, Martha C. Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
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Karras, Ruth Mazo. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England. New York: Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1996.
Karras, Ruth Mazo. Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc, 2012.
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Katie Ann-Marie Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, John Van Engen, Ruth Karras, Asma Afsaruddin, S. J Pearce, Adrienne Williams Boyarin, David Wallace, Sean L Field, and F. Thomas Luongo. Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxhrkgq.
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Matter, E. Ann, and John Coakley.Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing
Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Up to date, and intended for both novices and specialists, this 4-volume set covers European history, society, religion, and culture between A.D. 500 to 1500. Articles number about 5,000. They range from brief to lengthy, include bibliographies, and often unearth material you can only find elsewhere with difficulty. Women and children, for example, get substantial attention. The set contains a thematic listing of entries, a general index, a list of medieval popes and antipopes, and an index of alternative place names.
Including more than 5,000 signed articles ranging in length from 100 to 10,000 words, this 13-volume set is the major scholarly encyclopedia for medieval studies and is intended for all levels, from the high school student to the scholar. All volumes are available online on the Internet Archive, a trusted source, but one for which it is necessary to create a free account and login.
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The major English-language comprehensive history of the Middle Ages, this work is a completely new edition of the former standard work, The Cambridge Medieval History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1911; St. Michael’s 2nd Floor – D117 .C3).
Ancient Europe, 8000 B.C. to A.D. 1000: Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World
Both online and in print, and containing more than 1,500 articles, this 5-volume set is the major encyclopedia for Celtic studies.
Viking invasions, language, mythology, saints, clothing, craftsmanship, architecture—these are some of the many topics covered in this encyclopedia. The entries, centred on such themes as lineage, manuscripts, persons and scholarship, focus on the period 500 to 1600 A.D., and come with cross-references and bibliographies. There are alphabetical and thematic tables of contents.
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
A Companion to Medieval Art Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe
Medieval Archaeology: An Encyclopedia
This introduction to German and Dutch-speaking Europe focuses on the region’s major people, events, places, daily life, and accomplishments between roughly 500 and 1500 A.D. Alphabetical entries on such topics as patronage, diet and nutrition, and Segher Diengotgaf are made accessible through a list of entries by category (e.g. Music; Persons; Religion and Theology; Women, Gender and Families), as well as by the usual index at the back.
Pick up this 2-volume set for an introduction to mediaeval Italian life and culture. With nearly 1,000 entries ranging from 500 to 10,000 words, and covering specific topics in the brief articles (e.g. Camerino, Duchy of) and general topics in the lengthy ones (e.g. Florence), this set includes 3 pages of maps, along with a reference list of Popes and Rulers in the appendix.
Medieval Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
In entries varying from 500-word descriptions to 3,000-word overviews, this encyclopedia aims at helping undergraduates and the general public in coming to grips with the political, social, religious, economic, intellectual, literary and artistic history of France between roughly 500 and 1500 A.D.. Various useful lists complement these entries: The Kings, Counts, Dukes; Popes; Architectural Terms; and Musical Terms.
Witty, F. J. "Prayer Books." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2003.
The major English-language encyclopedia on Catholic topics, it contains some 17,000 articles, each with a bibliography emphasizing the primary sources. Unfortunately many of the articles in the 2003/online edition are reprints from the 1967 edition without any updating. Use this work to get an overview of a subject and to see how it can be divided into narrower topics for a paper.
Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church
Research Guide to Women in the Middle Ages
Research Guide to Medieval Studies
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International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
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ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Over one million bibliographic citations to journal articles, essays in books, and book reviews in the field of religion. Covers all aspects of the major world religions and now includes all the content of the online Catholic Periodical and Literature Index.
The MLA is the major English literature database. It covers criticism related to literature, linguistics and folklore from 1921 to the present, and contains more than 1-million citations to journal articles, series, books, working papers and conference proceedings. Most of the materials indexed before 1963 are American.